The Miami Lakes K-8 Center Chess Club completed the last tournament of the school year in May after a successful season. The tournament, sponsored by the 64 Squares Foundation, had students competing from dozens of schools over six hours. All of the MLK-8 students fared well, especially Michael Montoya who won the 3rd place overall for his division. The Chess Club, consisting of 22 students, plays after school three times a week. The...

  Alumni, faculty, staff and students recently gathered at Monsignor Edward Pace High School (Pace) for the 2018 Annual Pace Gallery Art Show. Marcel Navarro, lead instructor for Pace’s Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, organized the show which featured art pieces from current Pace students as well as alumni.  This year’s show introduced an additional element as Pace invited all local Catholic middle schools to...

  Hialeah Miami Lakes High students Maria Parents and Ashley Fernandez finished in second place at the 2018 Fairchild Shade Our Schools Challenge. The girls competed among other students in interdisciplinary, environmental science competition which is designed to engage students of diverse interest, abilities, talents and backgrounds to explore the natural world. The program has been recognized as a benchmark for exceptional STEM...

  Beginning Saturday, August 4, Miami Dade College (MDC) will extend information center hours and offer on-site registration on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon, until September 8. Students will be able to meet with advisors, register for classes, explore financial aid options and pay tuition. Fall semester classes will begin August 27. MDC’s eight campuses and a major outreach center offer more than 300 academic pathways...

  David A. Armstrong was named the next president for St. Thomas University, the college’s Board of Trustees announced. Armstrong will replace outgoing President Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale, who’s retiring. Armstrong will officially take over the duties on August 1. Armstrong comes to STU from Thomas More College (TMC), a Catholic liberal arts college of the Diocese of Covington in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, where he has...